Word: gym
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even in the things they own and the way they train. Ali's training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., overlooking Amish country, could be described as rich rustic. The $200,000 compound consists of five buildings in a log-cabin motif, including a fully equipped gym. Foreman trains in the drab mineral and gem exhibition hall at the Alameda County fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., near Oakland. For dressing quarters he uses the ladies' room...
...money in 1972 when it needed a new boat. The men's swimming and basketball teams retained priority for prime times on the IAB basketball court and in the pool, and Radcliffe athletes continued to hold most of their practices on the non-regulation facilities in the Radcliffe gym. Whenever Radcliffe teams had out-of-town meets, they had to find their own transportation while Harvard athletes rode in buses or airplanes. And when the women's crew--the 1973 North American champions--needed funds to travel to Moscow for the European Rowing Championships, the Friends of Radcliffe Rowing...
...Radcliffe basketball team secured only one hour per week of practice time on the Harvard regulation court, and practiced for two hours, each of the other six days on the Radcliffe gym court, which is at least 15 feet narrower than the IAB facility. Harvard's varsity practiced daily on the IAB court, and the Intramural house teams had nightly scheduled practices there. On the priority yardstick, the Radcliffe varsity ranked lower than the non-varsity house squads...
...friends who spanned several classes. Jack wasn't one of the heroes, but he made them his friends." He managed the varsity basketball team his freshman year. On one occasion he thought that the opposing team was playing dirty. After the game, Nicholson went back into the gym and trashed the electrical equipment on the rival's Scoreboard. He confessed his crime, got suspended from school, and took a part-time job to pay for the damage. That was Nicholson's first moment of notoriety...
...York City, he worked his way through Long Island University to an economics degree as a dance-band pianist. An avid athlete-golf, tennis, swimming-he runs on a treadmill every morning in the company gym. He was named Republican finance chairman of Connecticut last year...